Many people believe that the declining use of asbestos in the United States means that mesothelioma is not a disease of the ...
As if a mesothelioma diagnosis isn’t stressful enough, patients diagnosed with the rare and fatal asbestos-related disease ...
When the head of an Illinois-based asbestos abatement company falsely certified that a property he’d contracted to work on was clean, the contaminated material he left behind posed a significant risk ...
While immunotherapy has been increasingly used to treat mesothelioma in the United States, other countries have been slower to adopt the innovative treatment. A study from oncologists at Geetanjali ...
Though talc companies continue to push back against claims that their products cause mesothelioma, victims continue to file lawsuits and continue winning in court. In the case of a California man ...
Mesothelioma is extremely difficult to diagnose, and a missed diagnosis can lead to deadly delays in treatment. But just as it’s important to correctly and quickly identify the rare, asbestos-related ...
Mesothelioma Awareness Day was observed this past weekend. Events held across the nation brought renewed calls for Congress to ban asbestos once and for all, with the Asbestos Disease Awareness ...
Mesothelioma widow Linda Horton has won a second victory over General Electric, this time from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The appellate judges affirmed a lower court’s decision ...
The drug company AstraZeneca is currently conducting a global study testing a new treatment for patients with unresectable pleural mesothelioma. The study, called the “eVOLVE-Meso” Phase III clinical ...
The Trump administration’s rapid demolition of the historic White House East Wing has raised many questions and concerns, not the least of which surrounds the significant mesothelioma risk for workers ...
After nearly ten years of attempting the bankruptcy maneuver known as the “Texas Two-Step,” Georgia-Pacific appears to be moving toward a new bankruptcy filing to resolve tens of thousands of asbestos ...
In what is believed to be the largest asbestos verdict ever awarded in the state of Massachusetts, a Boston jury has awarded a widower $83 million, including $60 million in punitive damages. Michael ...